- Nov 07, 2020
Yourself Quotes
The hardest audience is yourself.
These quotes turn inward — an actor describing the fear that comes before any audience does, and thoughts on the quiet value of lowering the noise and simply listening more closely. For more on inner confidence, see Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my biggest strength is that I always keep doing exactly the same thing. There are forwards who go crazy with euphoria, but after a goal, I let myself fall back to the midfield, recharge. Keeping yourself cool and concentrated on your mission.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's such an obedient way to be for a woman, to try to keep yourself in top shape, to follow all the rules and hope that will get you a measure of stability or happiness. That's part of the affluent suburban dream: to do everything perfectly in a long-winded way, to try to fulfill all the requirements.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something is wrong, it'll prove to be wrong in the wash, and if it's right, you don't want to not expose yourself to it - so I read everything, no matter how horrible it gets. You listen and take it in and if it doesn't sway you, you'll know you considered it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.
- Easiest Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people should feel less restricted by the perimeters of things like 'menswear' and 'womenswear.' It's not something that I really give much credence to when I'm buying clothes. I buy mostly ladies clothes. I think to be yourself, first and foremost, that's the easiest way to think about it.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are actors who do various different shades of a similar character, which is fine. But I prefer the Cillian Murphy school of doing something that takes you so far outside yourself that it's an incredible challenge and adventure.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020